Sunday, 3 May 2015

life in elizabeth bay

The café in the bay near K’s flat used to be a
fabulous – and typically Sydney - breakfast joint. It then got taken over by the hipsterish Miss Chu’s and did Vietnamese things for a bit. But then she over-extended, went into voluntary administration and so it has been shut for a while. Now it appears to have been taken over by an
Irishman and a Scotsman (apologies to them is this is wrong). They have an
enthusiasm for slightly peculiar items in this context such as penguin bars and
(I think) tunnock’s teacakes. And last time I went to get a flat white, at
about 8.30am, they were just advising a customer that mushroom soup with sherry
would be available very soon.

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Welcome to Sydney below the Surf/ace. As an outsider - only here for a year - I want to capture those small everyday differences that make this place what it is, and see a side to the city that is more than its tourist image of sun, beach and surfing - although, of course, I will be looking at those things too.